The Latin American Network Information Center (LANIC) was launched in 1992 to facilitate access to online information on, from, or about Latin America, through partnerships with organizations in Latin America and globally. The collections and initiatives that comprise LANIC have been migrated to updated repository platforms to ensure continued access, improved discoverability, and long-term sustainability. Below are direct links to access these materials.
You can also view an archived version of the original LANIC webpage and related projects at https://wayback.archive-it.org/11176/20181106182048/http://lanic.utexas.edu/.
From 1992 to 2015, LANIC maintained a set of Resource Guides for Latin American Studies. Each Guide contains dozens of links to relevant resources in and about Latin America. The collection includes a total of 42 Country Guides and 85 Subject Guides. An archived version of the resource guides site is available for reference here: https://wayback.archive-it.org/11176/20181106182048/http://lanic.utexas.edu/.
LANIC hosted an extensive set of digital collections covering many different topics and content areas, as well as an extensive Etext collection comprising research papers written by Latin American studies scholars; theses and dissertations; etext versions of books; conference proceedings; speeches by Latin American leaders; periodical publications; and official documents. Direct links to the LANIC digital initiatives and Etext content are provided below.
You can also view archived versions of the original landing pages at the links below:
Archivo de InfoPYME: Noticias sobre la Pequeña y Mediana Empresa en América Latina
Between 1998 and 2002, LANIC published 16 issues of the newsletter InfoPYME: Noticias sobre la Pequeña y Mediana Empresa en América Latina. The newsletter was part of the SME Forum, an initiative of the Proyecto Regional de Capacitación Gerencial del FOMIN of the Interamerican Development Bank (IADB). An archived version of the original LANIC webpage for the InfoPYME newsletter can be found here.
The Castro Speech Database contains the full text of English translations of speeches, interviews, and press conferences by Fidel Castro, based upon the records of the Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS), a U.S. government agency responsible for monitoring broadcast and print media in countries throughout the world. Contents of the database, over 2,000 texts covering 37 years, can be searched or browsed. These records are in the public domain. Original audio of the speeches is not available. This is an archived version of the database.
A dataset derived from the Castro Speech database is available in the Texas Data Repository. It includes text files of 2410 speeches, interviews, reports, among other types of documents, by Fidel Castro from 1959 to 1996. Access the dataset here.
Digital Collection of Mexican and Argentine Presidential Messages
This collection consists of over 75,000 digital images of Mexican and Argentine presidential speeches from the 19th century captured from microfilm. The Library of Congress has filmed Argentine presidential messages, while the Mexican material has been filmed by Preservation Resources. This is an archived version of the project site, which was funded by the Latin Americanist Research Resources Project.
Estudios Sociales: Revista de Investigación Científica
Full text for retrospective issues from 2004 through 2010 of the journal Estudios Sociales, published in Mexico by the Centro de Investigación en Alimentación y Desarrollo. An archived version of this content can be found here.
Current issues of Estudios Sociales are available from the Centro de Investigación en Alimentación y Desarrollo website: https://www.ciad.mx/estudiosociales/index.php/es.
Evaluación Cualitativa Externa del Programa Oportunidades: 2000 - 2008
First implemented in 1997, PROGRESA, now known as "Oportunidades," was the first conditional cash transfer program to target socioeconomic factors to achieve substantial improvements in the health, education, and nutrition of Mexico's rural poor. Between 2004 and 2010, it assisted 5 million households in rural Mexico, about 25% of the country's population. Agustín Escobar Latapí and Mercedes González de la Rocha led qualitative evaluations of the program from 2000 until 2008. The collection consists of the published results of these evaluations. An archived version of this content can be found here.
Fundación MAPFRE Guía de fuentes etnográficas
The "Guía preliminar de fuentes documentales etnográficas para el estudio de los pueblos indígenas de Iberoamérica" was originally published by the Fundación Histórica Tavera on LANIC in 1998. It is a detailed guide to archival sources located in the United States, Europe, and 11 Latin American countries. The focus is on archival collections that contain primary source material related to the indigenous peoples of Latin America. The guide covers both civil and ecclesiastical collections. This is an archived version of the project site.
The Granma Archives Index is a searchable Spanish-language database of articles published from 1965 to 1992 in the official daily newspaper of the Cuban Communist Party, Granma. The database provides bibliographic references for the articles, including headline, length of the article, date, and author. An archived version of the project site is available here.
Hemisphere Initiatives is a collection of reports published between 1989 and 2004 by a group of scholars and activists who worked on peace, social justice, and democracy initiatives in Central America. Authors include Jack Spence, Margaret Popkin, George Vickers, Bill Stanley, Madalene O'Donnell, David Dye, and Judy Butler. An archived version of this content can be found here.
Latin American Electronic Data Archive
The Latin American Electronic Data Archive (LAEDA) seeks to collect, preserve, and provide access to data sets relevant to Latin American research, policy analysis, and teaching. The focus of the collection is on electoral data, household surveys, and data relevant to education in Latin America. An archived version of this content can be found here.
The Religion in Latin America website provides information, research, discussion, and analysis of religion in Latin America. It serves as a gateway for information on the Roman Catholic Church as a historical, social, and political actor in Latin America from colonial times to the present. It also provides information on non-Catholic religiosity in Latin America, including Protestantism, Pentecostalism, and Mormonism, religions of the African diaspora, indigenous religions, Indigenous Christianity, Judaism, and Islam. An archived version of this website can be found here.
Full text for retrospective issues from 1996 through 2008 of the journal Revista Región y Sociedad published by El Colegio de Sonora in Mexico. An archived version of this content can be found here.
Trends in Latin American Networking
Trends in Latin American Networking (TILAN) document trends regarding the expansion of the Internet throughout Latin America. TILAN provides access to statistical data, information, and analysis for those interested in exploring the growth of the Latin American Internet. Most of the material published in TILAN covers the period from the mid-1990s through the mid-2000s. An archived version of this website can be found here.
The Latin American Open Archives Portal is a project of the Latin Americanist Research Resources Project (LARRP), in collaboration with LANIC, to improve access to social sciences grey literature produced in Latin America. The portal provides access to working documents, pre-prints, research papers, statistical documents, and other difficult-to-access materials from the "deep Web." Typically, this content is published by research institutes, non-governmental organizations, and peripheral agencies that are not controlled by commercial publishers. Direct links to LAOAP content are provided below. You can also view an archived version of the original LAOAP webpage: https://wayback.archive-it.org/11176/20230807182400/http://lanic.utexas.edu/project/laoap/.
Center for Indigenous Languages of Latin America -- CILLA
CILLA was established by LLILAS to contribute to knowledge about the indigenous languages of Latin America, to promote their maintenance, and to coordinate teaching programs in and about indigenous languages. An archived version of this content can be found here.
Center for Latin American Social Policy -- CLASPO
CLASPO works to strengthen social policy research on Latin America to promote effective community development policies. The collection includes Cuadernos de CLASPO-Argentina, working papers from the Red de Trabajo de CLASPO, and other social policy documents by affiliated scholars. An archived version of this content can be found here.
Centro de Estudios y Promoción del Desarrollo -- DESCO
DESCO es una organización no gubernamental de desarrollo que se ubica en la sociedad civil peruana, con 43 años de trabajo al servicio de la promoción del desarrollo social y del fortalecimiento de las capacidades de los sectores excluidos del Perú. Una versión archivada de este contenido se puede encontrar aquí.
Centro Iberoamericano de Formación -- CIF Antigua
El Programa Iberoamericano de Formación Técnica Especializada, realizado por la AECI en sus tres Centros de Formación en Iberoamérica (Santa Cruz de la Sierra en Bolivia, Cartagena de Indias en Colombia y La Antigua en Guatemala, tiene como objetivo capacitar técnicamente al personal de las instituciones públicas de la región. Esta iniciativa busca modernizar y fortalecer las administraciones gubernamentales, mejorar la prestación de servicios a los ciudadanos y promover la inclusión y representación de grupos marginados como mujeres y pueblos indígenas. Una versión archivada de este contenido se puede encontrar aquí.
Consejo Latinoamericano de Ciencias Sociales -- CLASCO
Esta es una versión archivada de la página original de CLACSO. CLACSO es una institución internacional no gubernamental establecida en 1967, que agrupa a más de ciento sesenta centros de investigación y programas de posgrado en ciencias sociales de 21 países de América Latina y el Caribe. Su misión es promover la investigación y la enseñanza en diversos campos de las ciencias sociales. CLACSO busca abordar críticamente los desafíos integrales que enfrentan las sociedades latinoamericanas y caribeñas. Tenga en cuenta que muchos de los enlaces en estos contenidos archivados ya no funcionan.
Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales -- FLACSO Chile
Esta es una versión archivada de la página web original de FLACSO. La Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales es un organismo internacional de carácter académico, regional y autónomo, creado en 1957 por los gobiernos de América Latina y el Caribe. Sus objetivos incluyen promover la investigación, la docencia, la difusión científica y la cooperación técnica en el campo de las ciencias sociales. Tenga en cuenta que muchos de los enlaces en estos contenidos archivados ya no funcionan.
Instituto de Estudios Peruanos -- IEP
Desde su fundación en 1964, el Instituto de Estudios Peruanos (IEP) es uno de los centros de investigación social más importantes del país. Las actividades del IEP permiten el desarrollo de espacios de diálogo entre distintos actores, en un marco de amplitud y pluralismo. Una versión archivada de este contenido se puede encontrar aquí.
Instituto de Investigaciones Gino Germani -- IIGG
El Instituto de Investigaciones Gino Germani, dependiente de la Facultad de Ciencias Sociales (UBA) formula y ejecuta proyectos de investigación de enfoque multidisciplinario en las diversas áreas de las ciencias sociales. Agrupa a profesores e investigadores de las cinco carreras que integran la Facultad y a investigadores del Consejo Nacional de Investigacions Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET). Una versión archivada de este contenido se puede encontrar aquí.
Inter-American Development Bank -- IADB
Esta es una versión archivada de la página web original de FLACSO. El Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo, una iniciativa de los países latinoamericanos, fue establecido en 1959 como una institución de desarrollo con mandatos y herramientas innovadoras. Tenga en cuenta que muchos de los enlaces en estos archivos archivados ya no funcionan.
Programa Cultura, Comunicación y Transformaciones Sociales -- PCCTSD
Esta es una versión archivada de la página web original de FLACSO. Desde 1992, el Programa estudia procesos sociales contemporáneos integrando aspectos culturales, políticos, sociales y económicos. Promueve diversas aproximaciones teóricas y fomenta estudios que analizan las prácticas de actores sociales en contextos significativos, considerando su participación en procesos transnacionales y globales. Tenga en cuenta que muchos de los enlaces en estos archivos archivados ya no funcionan.
Texas Papers on Latin America -- TPLA
The purpose of the Texas Papers on Latin America (TPLA) is to provide pre-publication distribution of draft papers by UT-Austin Latin Americanists and visiting scholars to the UT-Austin campus in the interest of generating useful feedback and better comprehension of the breadth of Latin American Studies at the University of Texas. An archived version of this content can be found here.
Universidad Torcuato Di Tella -- UTDT
Universidad Torcuato Di Tella (UTDT) is a private non-profit institution founded in 1991 by the Di Tella Foundation and the Instituto Torcuato Di Tella, with support from the international philanthropic community. The mission of the University, which opened its doors on March 11, 1992, is to educate new generations of academic, social, political, and business leaders, and to enhance research and scholarship in the arts and sciences. An archived version of this content can be found here.
Papers of Lucas Alamán, Mexican statesman, political leader and historian, include documents pertaining to colonial administration and church history of Mexico in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and nineteenth century correspondence and documents concerning Mexican government, political, and military affairs. Archived version of the project site.
Archivo de José María Luis Mora
Correspondence, literary productions and other documents of José María Luis Mora, priest, lawyer, and Mexican statesman. Archived version of the project site.
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